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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 437 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EMMANUEL ARMAND DE WIGNEROD DU PLESSIS DE RICHELIEU AIGUILLON  , Duc D' (1720-1782), French states-man,
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nephew of the marechal de Richelieu, was born on the 31st of
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July 1720 . He entered the army at the age of seventeen, and at the age of nineteen was made colonel of the regiment of Brie . He served in the
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campaigns in Italy during the War of the
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Austrian Succession, was seriously wounded at the siege of Chateau-Dauphin (1744), was taken prisoner (1746) and was made marechal de camp in 1748 . His
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marriage in 1740 with Louise Felicite de Brehan, daughter of the comte de Plelo, See E . Flechier, Oraison funebre de Mme .
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Marie de Wignerod, duchesse d'Aiguillon; Bonneau-Avenant, La duchesse d'Aiguillon (1879); Mimoires de Saint-Simon, ed. by A. de Boislisle (1879 et seq.) .

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